The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A BRASS band, whose fourteen members are
all newsboys, exists in New Orleans, and its
services are in great demand.
AN association has been formed in Germany
under the title of "Katholsche Dichterscnule.
for the furtherance and cultivation of Roman
Catholic poetry.
SALEswoMEN in several dry goods houses in
Cleveland are fined q cent everv time they use
a slang word, and at the end of the week some
of them owe the firm i've or six dollars beside
their wages.
THE sum of $40, 900 is wanted for the monu-
ment to the Rev. Thomas Star King in Golden
Gate Park. San francisco Senator Stanford
and Prof. E. S. Holden are at the head of the
committee in charge
TALL, fne-looking colored man recently
called on Secretary Lamar, and the two men sat
down and conversed for over an hour. The sur
prised clerks at length learned that the caller
was Bishop Turner, of Georgia.
MRS. LANGTRY has acquired new fame in
California A writer in Sacramento paper
says of her: ''She is not much of an actress
but she has long been regarded of the
most beautiful women in New Jersey"
QUEEN VICTORIA is going to institute an order
of literary merit consisting of twenty knights.
fifty knights companions. and one hundred COM
panions Buffalo Bills recent essays in litera-
DENVER, Col, is to have college for women
modelled after Wellesley or vassar. The La
dies College Society,"" which has the matter in
charge, will get Incorporated and will set to
work pluckily to raise $3.50, 900 in real estate
and cash.
IT has been some time since the American
public has heard anything about Louise Michel,
the famous Partisan agitator. 1t seems she has
been devotine herself to literary work and will
soon publish volume of poems entitled LES
Oceanennes"
Dr. MooRHEAD writes in the British Medical
Journal that he has obtained relief from hay
fever, his annual prosecutor for thirty years. by
hypodermic injection of one-twentieth of grain
of morphine and two-nundredth of grain of
atropine night and morning The relief was
complete.
THE Rev. DR.. w. T. Adams lately rector of
Holy Trinity Church. Vicksburg, Miss. has left
that town and come North assume the
bishopric of Easton Md. to which he some
time ago elected 1t seems to be agreed that he
is not disqualified by having once registered
missionary bishopric.
THERE are only four localities where mercury
or quicksilver is found in abundance. These
California, Austria Almaden, in Spain, and
Peru. The mines in this latter place were dis
covered in very curious manner. Cinnabar,
the soft and reddish rock of which mercury
forms part, when ground very fine. serves
a beautiful ged paint.
a CORRESPONDENT who has met Buffalo Bill
and his daughter. in London. describes the latter
as young lady of nineteen, inclined to be
pretty, but rather conveying the impression that
she revels in sucking oranges, chewing gum
etc" One of the curious features of her make
up noted. piece of court-plaster stuc k
artis.icallv on the side of her nose.
ACCORDING to Albany papers, families who
would like to be thought to be away at Saratoga
or Long Branch have improved upon the old
tick of shutting the front blinds and living in
the back of the house They leave their news
papers on the front stoop, apparently neglected;
but they take the papers in at night and read
them, at the same time supplying the stoop
with old papers for the next days masquerade.
In connection with the plen to form a Walt
Whitman Society in Boston the Traveller of
that city, says: Boston prohibits the sale of
Walt Whitman's books. Even their circulation
from the public library is forbidden and his vol
umes appear there with the omnous three stars
that tell the tale to the initiated. The idea of
establishing a society for the promotion of ideas
which the statutes of the city forbid to circulate
is simply delicious. Boston is nothing If not
Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND has some
of her brothers prejudice against newspapers.
She writes to the editor of > Maine magazine
that she has not given up literary work for
She says she has been associate
editor with Mrs. Lamb since June l the
Magazine of American History To the Maine
editor she further says: The untruthful and
inventive newspapers are at fault and not your
self. My work in Mrs. Reeds school for the
next year is that of an associate, not assistant,
and is in connection with my historical work in
general"
SUNDAY was the eighty-fourth birthday of
Capt. John Ericsson, the inventor. He is in
splendid health and able to work twelve hours
lay. He lives at No. Sc Beach street, New
York, where he has resided for more than thirty
years. He rises every morning at GAO, takes
cold bath and gymnastic exercise and eats
light breakfast at 8. At 4:30 he dimes. From
10 10 at night he works. and from 10 to - he in
iuIges in outdoor exercise. His studies
wholly scientific, and his capacity for work
would sh anne many younger man. He never
oucbes tobacco and is never troubled with in
;omna.
DR. FRANTzEL, of Berlin. reporting the
effects of immoderate smoking upon the heart |
Jays that smoking, as a rule, agrees with per-
IONS for many years. although by degrees cigars
# fine flavor are chosen. But all at once, |
without any assienable cause, troubles |
,erienced wit the heart, which compel the call |
ng in of doctor. Common cigars are not |
liable to produce these effects as the finer fla |
gored ones. Nor can the charge be laid on ciga- |
rettes although they produce evils of their own. |
The trouble seldom begins until after the smok- |
IT is over thirty years of age. and most usually |
stack him at between fifty and sixty. While it |
las not been determined what it is that makes |
,m O king injurious. it appears certain that the |
effect does not depend upon the amount of nj |
otne.
THERE went to the cupboard
A lady named Hupboard
To look for bone
But when she found none,
It saddened her that she cupboard
Father Gauder.